2646466- How to update the applicant's name - Recruiting Management

Symptom

A candidate has entered the wrong name in the candidate profile and applied. How can I edit it?

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Environment

SAP Success Factors Recruiting Management

Reproducing the Issue

As an external candidate:

Created my candidate profile

Input my name wrong or incomplete

Apply to a Job Requisition

Noticed that the name is wrong

I cannot edit my name, even if I withdraw and re-submit my applicationo

As a recruiter:

Notice the candidate applied with the wrong name

There is no way for me to edit

Cause

The candidate is not able to edit their own name in the application because Multi-Stage Application is not enabled in the instance. So, withdraw, edit the name and re-submit the application won't work.

As the recruiter, no action is possible, the EDIT_CANDIDATE_SNAPSHOT only allows the recruiter to edit: Email, Phone and Resume.

Resolution

In this case we are going to need to perform an SFAPI call to make the change in the name in the application.

Please note: If you do not have access to do so, you will need to reach out to your Implememntation Partner or Professional Services to assist you with your request.

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Here we have the candidate Simon Green. He is in the Job Requisition #57 and his Job Application ID is #16:

First thing we are going to do is to create a simple query to get the information of this candidate, to check if this is the correct candidate: